The slow motion retreat from peasant and artisan ruralism underpinned an institutional immobilism mastered by a new professional political class of meritocratic barristers and businessmen. ...
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The slow motion retreat from peasant and artisan ruralism underpinned an institutional immobilism mastered by a new professional political class of meritocratic barristers and businessmen. Politicized industrial relations and prominence of anarcho-syndicalist militancy in the weak trade unions led to general strikes becoming a mobilizing myth. Anticlericalism pursued the separation of Church and State, while anti-Semitism exploded in the Dreyfus Affair.Less

Jack Hayward

Published in print: 2007-04-01

The slow motion retreat from peasant and artisan ruralism underpinned an institutional immobilism mastered by a new professional political class of meritocratic barristers and businessmen. Politicized industrial relations and prominence of anarcho-syndicalist militancy in the weak trade unions led to general strikes becoming a mobilizing myth. Anticlericalism pursued the separation of Church and State, while anti-Semitism exploded in the Dreyfus Affair.

Since one of modernism’s recurring impulses is towards movement and the creation of contact zones, when tropes and figures typically identified with the rural South confront the metropolitan North, ...
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Since one of modernism’s recurring impulses is towards movement and the creation of contact zones, when tropes and figures typically identified with the rural South confront the metropolitan North, it becomes possible to propose a category that we might call migratory modernism. This chapter configures migratory modernism via three short stories, each of which depends upon New York City as a geographic locus, and each of which models the overlap of cultural circuits that occurs when the country and the city collide: Rudolph Fisher’s “City of Refuge” (1925), Faulkner’s “Pennsylvania Station” (1934), and Flannery O’Connor’s “Judgment Day” (1965). By taking the concept of Faulknerian space to signify spaces that are constantly reminded of their own historical scaffolding, as well as the effects that environment and landscape can have on the construction of identity, “No Kind of Place” presents these texts as distinct examinations of the portability—and durability—of Faulkner’s “South.”Less

“No Kind of Place”: New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism

Benjamin S. Child

Published in print: 2015-06-01

Since one of modernism’s recurring impulses is towards movement and the creation of contact zones, when tropes and figures typically identified with the rural South confront the metropolitan North, it becomes possible to propose a category that we might call migratory modernism. This chapter configures migratory modernism via three short stories, each of which depends upon New York City as a geographic locus, and each of which models the overlap of cultural circuits that occurs when the country and the city collide: Rudolph Fisher’s “City of Refuge” (1925), Faulkner’s “Pennsylvania Station” (1934), and Flannery O’Connor’s “Judgment Day” (1965). By taking the concept of Faulknerian space to signify spaces that are constantly reminded of their own historical scaffolding, as well as the effects that environment and landscape can have on the construction of identity, “No Kind of Place” presents these texts as distinct examinations of the portability—and durability—of Faulkner’s “South.”

America wins the war in Europe; Hitler is dead. After the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, the Japanese surrender and the most destructive war in human history is over. North Carolinians celebrated with ...
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America wins the war in Europe; Hitler is dead. After the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, the Japanese surrender and the most destructive war in human history is over. North Carolinians celebrated with wild abandon, cherishing the victory but mourning the loss of loved ones. The state would never be the same after the war—changing from a backward, poor society into an industrialized state with less poverty, better education, improved health care, and a move away from ruralism to urbanism.Less

Conclusion

Published in print: 2017-04-18

America wins the war in Europe; Hitler is dead. After the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, the Japanese surrender and the most destructive war in human history is over. North Carolinians celebrated with wild abandon, cherishing the victory but mourning the loss of loved ones. The state would never be the same after the war—changing from a backward, poor society into an industrialized state with less poverty, better education, improved health care, and a move away from ruralism to urbanism.

This chapter examines the geographical aspects of antievolutionism in the U.S., particularly its shift to the American South from its origin in the urban American North. It discusses the impact of ...
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This chapter examines the geographical aspects of antievolutionism in the U.S., particularly its shift to the American South from its origin in the urban American North. It discusses the impact of antievolutionism on the North-South divide, the effort of regional representatives to clarify their antievolutionist stand and the North's association of their regionalism with a willful anti-intellectualism. It also explores the ways in which ruralism and the rise of suburban antievolutionism in recent times complicate regional identifications and suggests that the South remains a geographical stronghold of Charles Darwin's detractors.Less

Regionalism and the Antievolution Impulse

Jeffrey P. Moran

Published in print: 2012-03-15

This chapter examines the geographical aspects of antievolutionism in the U.S., particularly its shift to the American South from its origin in the urban American North. It discusses the impact of antievolutionism on the North-South divide, the effort of regional representatives to clarify their antievolutionist stand and the North's association of their regionalism with a willful anti-intellectualism. It also explores the ways in which ruralism and the rise of suburban antievolutionism in recent times complicate regional identifications and suggests that the South remains a geographical stronghold of Charles Darwin's detractors.